qotd, on language
April 27, 2012
"The main source of onboard entertainment is Ed White, a bespectacled 'interpreter' employed by the National Forest Service. 'Interpreter' is what teh Forest Service calls a ranger who is also a tour guide, and I love what the title implies: that a place is like a language."
-- From Donovan Hohn's Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them. (which I highly recommend.)
You are my enabler of books. Damn it ( -because it'll be a few weeks before I can indulge - I'm looking for books for some upcoming travel. /sigh But I love that I can download a chapter before committing.)
Posted by: bullwinkle | April 30, 2012 at 06:34 PM